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446 Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Early Years

The History of Literature

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Queen Mab, a Philosophical Poem by Shelley

Shelley wrote Queen Mab when he was 18 and had it privately printed a couple of years later. Mary Shelley gives us a guide to her late husband's efforts in the posthumous collection. Footnotes helpfully expound Shelley's ideas of atheism, vegetarianism,. free love and so on.

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